Most Unreal Landscapes On Earth

Unreal landscapes on our very much real Earth are like gates to different worlds. These places blow our minds and cross the limits of our imagination.

Here is a collection of ten most alien-looking landscapes on Earth:

Iceland

Steam, bubbles, rocks and ice combine into breathtaking, though, alien-looking landscape. This is Iceland. The island with no trees, few people and the biggest glacier in Europe called Vatnajökull. Yes! This is Europe, not the moon.

Mauritania

The Eye of the Sahara called Richat Structure has a diameter of almost 50 kilometers (30 miles). Placed in Mauritania, it is so huge it can be visible from the space. A meteorite impact? An effect of erosion? A symmetrical uplift? Or maybe three in one? Geologists do not really know how the structure was created.

Socotra Island

A long geological isolation and dry, hot and harsh climate made Socotra Island looks like a grotesque computer animation. Hyperbolic plants, funky-looking trees and pink flowers can be great inspiration for graphic designers. The island is situated in the Indian Ocean 250 km from Somalia and 340 km from Yemen and it was isolated from mainland Africa for the last 6 or 7 million years.

Spain

An ancient, acidic river in Spain - Rio Tinto – is a favourite environment for acid- and metal-loving extremophiles. It does not look like human-friendly and, in fact, it is not, but surely it could quench the Terminator's thirst.

Yellowstone National Park

The terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, in the USA, are created by heat, water, limestone, and rock fracture. The formation is like a living sculpture that is constantly changing by flowing water and erosion. Well...the trees are very much alive as well.

Denmark

The Mars’ landscapes of Skagen in Denmark do not really fit into the image of the richest and most developed country in the world. The moving dunes and deserted beaches run into the end of Europe where the Baltic Sea clashes with the North Sea.

Bolivia

Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, is located in southwest Bolivia. The salt desert surrounded by cactuses, volcanoes and geysers looks as if it was a remote planet, far from our solar system.

Great collection, Arches National Park Utah would've been nice to see in it though.

GuestJul 5, 2009 5:38 PM

Check out Cook Inlet with the tide out. Anchorage Alaska.

karolina from polandJul 27, 2009 11:08 AM

amazing

Bill RyanJul 27, 2009 11:57 AM

This kind of beauty is indescribable! How little we know about the world we live in!

luliJul 31, 2009 9:34 PM

WOOOOOOOW.. AWESOME!!

ChrisAug 1, 2009 9:45 PM

Fascinating chocolate hills located in the philippine..thousands of hills..

JackAug 3, 2009 4:27 PM

Amazing pictures! But whoever wrote the captions is an idiot. The Grand Canyon is by far the most visited canyon in the American Southwest, and Denmark is NOT the richest country in the world. How about some editing next time?

julesabebopAug 14, 2009 5:14 AM

breathtaking! Makes me long to travel more.

sociologistAug 14, 2009 5:53 AM

mind blowing

Cheryl HeinzmanAug 18, 2009 6:24 PM

Totally awesome pictures.What great places they would all be to go visit!!

Can't beleive! I used to live in Skagen, very close from those pics are...and never knew how wonderful they look from a certain point of view

MeOct 10, 2009 6:23 AM

Can you say PhotoShop.

nAmeOct 10, 2009 4:47 PM

i really think they should have took some pics of Bornholm in the Denmark part..

MattOct 10, 2009 5:31 PM

Uhm, Iceland is green and hot and warm... Not
"This is Iceland. The island with no trees, few people and the biggest glacier"

You are getting iceland and greenland confused... the reason the names was to keep the vikings away. Greenland is full of ice cold and not a place you would want to live and is the biggest glacier. Iceland is beautiful and has only 11% of the land is glacier...

if there ever was a reason to dout that there was a God these pictures are proof that no man could create shuch wonders. thanks for the inspiration to thank God for his beautiful creation

Promoafaceri.comFeb 23, 2011 2:36 PM

As usual, nature gives us lessons. Is more than great and beyond words

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John MackJul 21, 2012 8:47 AM

Fascinating. But Pluto is no longer a planet.

J. AmoreSep 14, 2012 9:53 AM

This is in reference to the "Eye of the Sahara": When I was in the US Air Force (1970-1990), I was part of a C130 flight crew the first 8 years of my career. I saw many "unusual" sights and strange phenomenon" from the air. At that time, we were given to not discuss any strange sightings with anyone. During a flight is support of the Sep1994 "King Grain Operation" (Google) to Africa from the Canary Islands, we sighted a very unusual sight. WE were flying between 15K and 20K feet. C130's are low flying aircraft. We say a rock formation that appeared to be 2 circles of rock formation out in the middle of nowhere. Our navigator checked the map and found nothing on the map. We did not know nor had any idea on what it might have been. For the past 38 years, I had been wondering what it was we flew over. I had been searching for all these years. Then our new technology "Google" came. I just saw this "Eye of the Sahara" that the space lab had found during one of their fly over. We saw this rock formation many years before this finding came out. I feel better that we were not the only one that had seen this but we are still wondering what it is that caused this. There is one more sighting that I am still wondering about and will post when I ever I do find out what that other sighting is. Many mysteries of our earth.

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